17 Jun 00:47
--and books about real life and fiction
Shout Box archive
17 Jun 00:47
--Most beginners make the mistake of being engaged in the work, and not their lives..
17 Jun 00:47
--Yeah, and it's not totally superficial like a lot of people on the circuit can be
17 Jun 00:45
--@Amit: There was a knight in the conference? Did he bring his suit of armor? Haha!
17 Jun 00:44
--My advice, and the advice of Iain McCaig and Sir Richard Taylor amongst others I heard at a conference lately is.....do your own fucking thing. Bring yourself into the picture...don't try and be someone else. Make things personal and fresh. If you think it's cool, someone else is bound to
17 Jun 00:42
--i mean wow has some awesome shapes and all, i just noticed my stuff sometimes looks like a toy when i want it to look real
17 Jun 00:42
--You are what you eat. If regurgitation is all you eat, you will only poop out more vomit
17 Jun 00:41
--Well, I think influences are fine, nothing wrong with it at all....but yeah everyone is cycling these influences out there, and not that many are coming up with unique versions, so the risk becomes sucking in all that uninspired regurgitation.
17 Jun 00:40
--like that thing when people started drawing when they were into anime and have to unlearn the style
17 Jun 00:40
--Yeah I went through that too, which is why I cut myself off from most of it. But no harm looking, as long as it isn't fucking with your own process